#HAM RADIO ANTENNA PATCH PANEL CODE#

To that amp I have connected an 80M 1/4 wave vertical on another part of the property and the TNY is hooked up to TX 2. To that line I have connected my Amp supply LK800 TNY. The 80M antenna is on F5K antenna line 2. Here is the shot when I want to transmit on 80 For a contest you would simply set up the station before hand how ever you like and forget it. I used to use switches to try and do all this but it is far too complex and the patch panel is MUCH more configurable and I highly recommend it as a solution. I use the coax from my Johnson match box as one of the antennas since that is always connected to the open wire line and is not patch into anything so it basically is one of the antennas. My patch panel also has output from my Flex 3K my SDR-1000 and one of my antenna tuners that has 3 outputs.

#HAM RADIO ANTENNA PATCH PANEL CODE#

If I hit the code key I will get 1500 watts out on 40M So the hookup is F5K ant1->Alpha 78-> LP-100 watt meter-> 40M half wave vert I then hook the 40M 1/2 wave end fed vertical to the Alpha. So for example on 40 M I can select my Alpha 78 and put that is antenna line 1 and hook up TX 1 to the Alpha. Also I have a seperate little patch panel that allows me to hook up any of the 3 TX outputs of the radio to any of the 4 amps. As well I have 4 amplifiers presently coming out to the patch panel and any of the 4 amplifiers can be patched into the line of any of the 3 outputs of the F5K. Any of these 5 ports can be patched to any of my 4 antennas. Presently my patch panel has all 3 outputs from the F5K, the RX1 input and the RX2 input. My station is designed using a patch panel. The antenna will be ANT 1 on both receive and transmit.

With this setup my radio will receive on RX1 and transmit on the freq displayed in VFO A. Note the red square at the base of VFO A, and note that the antenna selector is in expert mode. Here is a screen shot of the radio on 40M in the first receiver, and the antenna setup for 40M To do SO2R the second receiver must be present. Listed here is some of the built in capability for SO2R. There has been a discussion on the Flex list about using the F5K in SO2R configuration

Ham radio antenna patch panel